Levitt had worked for the House since 2005 as a finance and benefits coordinator. Her friend Dave Votava, who also worked at the legislature, was with her and her family when she died.

“She is in a good place now and will forever be in my memories. Here’s to you Cindy!” Votava wrote in an e-mail after she died.

“I got home and made a very tall dirty vodka martini with many olives over ice and chuckled to the many crazy things that I experienced during our friendship. Mine were tears of joy for her passing to a place of no worries or pain.”

Levitt’s memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Temple Sinai, 3509 S. Glencoe St., with a reception following.

“She thought it would be a short stay to get nourishment for ongoing problems due to her gastric bypass surgery several years ago,” Votavae said, in an e-mail announcing her death. “While at the hospital, she became terribly ill and they found her gallbladder to be clogged.”